Help us pick from out top three!

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We've managed to narrow it down to these three but baby's due in a week and we still can't decide for the life of us.

• Sunshine
• Symphony
• Seawillow

I know they're not MN Approved names but hoping some people on here will have similar taste.

We already have a Honeybee and a Starling.

Hurray! Solstice is fabulous.

I was actually going to suggest Orion too! :D

Have you considered Sonnet?
Calypso or Cadence might also be up your street?
Failing that, Sunbeam is more namey to me, than Sunshine.
I also offer you Solstice

TomaytoTomarto Absolutely ridiculous. Saddling children with such ridiculous names should be a recognised form of child abuse, because it’s certainly abusing your parental rights.

Whattodo I agree with you.
It is indeed an abuse of a responsibility and power to inflict such stupidity on a helpless being, who then has to grow up stuck with it.

Honeybee.

I wonder if you can sue your parents for damages if they give you a stupid name? I hope so.

Lemon thankfully not stuck with it. They can choose to change their creative name to a regular one. Even before deed-poll change, DCs can approach teachers and ask for an alternative. I think most teachers will put DCs needs above bizarre parents. Particularly if a boy doesn't want to be Seawillow because he would rather be Sam.

That's actually quite a disgusting thing to do, lumping a merely unusual name in with actual child abuse.

I personally know a Solstice, a Woody, an Orion, a Bluebell, a Storm, an Andromeda, a Buzz, a Buddy, a Winter, a Summer, several Rivers - ALL are from loving happy homes and are thriving. As well as my own unusually-monikered children, who have never been so much as teased for their names let alone bullied. Mine also have more mainstream nickname options too, should they wish to use those. It's all good. Apart from when their mother encounters narrowmindedness on an anonymous forum. Ach, even then, I don't care - you probably called your children something top ten that I would find tediously dull.

Choc, my eldest sometimes likes to go by his middle name - which is even more out there than his first! When he was younger he even made up other names for himself - all wild and hippy and hip. If he wants to be Sam when he is older, fine! The only two people I know who changed their names had mainstream names and chose far more unusual names.

Tomayto, are any of them celebs?

Dh and I have agreed that given the time of year and the weather (touch wood it holds out until baby is born) we're going to with either Sunshine or Solstice depending on which suits baby better once they're here.

And for people getting their knickers in a twist, they don't have middle names but all our children are (and will be) baptised with saints names that we're happy for them to use if they're ever unhappy with their given names as we are aware that unusual names aren't for everyone.

Also thank you Tomayto for being lovely and helpful

Tomayto, names are in the top ten for a reason, they are nice names.
Ds name is certainly not unusual but not in the top ten, if at some point it is then I’m happy with that. It reflects the fact it’s a nice name.

Whilst the child abuse comments were flippant and sarcastic, to me it does seem an abuse of power to name your child something weird that they then have to live with.

If they want to stand out when older, leave that to them I say, they could always give themselves an odd nickname if they want something out there.
However I must say I’ve never heard a person with a sensible name be teased/grow up and hate it. I’ve known children be teased and hate odd names however....

Jammy, one parent of one was famous in the nineties. Not now. And the rest, not at all.

Oooh please go with Solstice! I tried to get SIL to take this for their June-born but no go! Solstice Sunbeam would be glorious!

And you are welcome! I LOVE an unusual names thread.

Solstice isn't a name though!

I vote Seawillow, although you can go with Seabiscuit if it's a boy??

I do like a few top ten-ish names, but steered well-clear as their top-tennedness just spoils it for me.

Let's give our children names we love, and hope that other parents raise their children well enough to not be bullies, yes?

Anyway, like I said, mine do have much more mainstream nickname options they can easily choose to use should they so wish. Eldest currently uses a non-mainstream nn of his given name that his sister made up for him that is even more out there than the one we gave him.

For example, I called my DD Carousel (I did not), but she uses Carrie. Or Cara. See? Totes doable.

Would be boring if we all liked the same thing.

Solstice is of course a name, once it is bestowed upon a child. And I know one.

There are names, and there are unusual names. These are neither.

You might as well go with 'Bumfluff' - it's ridiculous, but no more or less a name than your other options.

I wasn’t being sarcastic or flippant about how it should be a recognised form of child abuse, because it is an abuse of the power and responsibility you have in naming your child. Just because there are more extreme ways to abuse your child, it does not stop the more subtle ways being abuse as well.

Such a lack of judgement at the very start of a baby’s life is rather worrying for its childhood.

Parents that are so selfish as to only think of what they like that stands out because they want to be ~unusual~ and ~cool~ aren't cut out to be parents and there should be measures in place to stop such abuse.

Take France, for example. If a name is deemed not in the best interests of the child, case in point the ridiculous suggestions of Sunshine, Solstice, Seawillow etc., the law gives the government the power to override the parents who can’t suitably name their child and change it. We should have a similar law here.

As a teacher, I can tell you that name discrimination is alive and well and I would make some serious assumptions based on those names. Please call the kid George or Ava.

Frankly, I'm finding the OP's stuff far too tame all of a sudden. How're these for something with a bit of oomph?

Rotgut
Dingleberry
Aubade
Soulvoid

That'll build some character, and no mistake!

Oh get over it. It's a name. In ALL my examples the children I know are thriving and happy. Several are old enough to say if they want to change their names. None have. (Except in play, for fun, where they come up with even more unusual names we have to call them, like Unicorn Kisses McDisco.) Perhaps you need to get out more.

It will be interesting to see if they change them in adulthood though.

TomaytoTomarto It’s nothing to do with “getting out more” and “getting over oneself” and everything to do with the majority of us not wanting to abuse our rights as parens and subsequently our children.

Fell, let's hope my kids never have you as a teacher, or another so narrow-minded. And if they do, let's hope they alleviate you of your prejudices.

I'll always remember reading a list of children's names and getting to Thor and looking up at the tiny "yes miss" to see a small awkward looking child and giggles across the room as everyone must previously have stopped at the same point to check. I rushed on, but damage done.

I wasn't raised to bully and not inclined to put others down, neither were the children in the class. Call a child a surprising name and they have to be the one alone taking the reaction I'm glad to hear the children on this thread have alternative mainstream options.

I'm happy to be called narrow-minded as I'm quite narow-minded about children having choices.